# Ubuntu 17.10 eve unable to find valid display adapter?

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**Category:** Linux\
**Created:** [November 13, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ubuntu-17-10-eve-unable-to-find-valid-display-adapter/39099 "2017-11-13T19:28:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drunken\_Cloaky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/drunken_cloaky/32/37919_2.png) [@Drunken\_Cloaky](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Drunken_Cloaky)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ubuntu-17-10-eve-unable-to-find-valid-display-adapter/39099/1 "2017-11-13T19:28:12Z")

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Hi Guys ,

I have a weird issue which effects me when attempting to run eve under my discreet nvidia GPU.  
When running eve under my intel intergrated GPU eve runs correctly.  
However Upon running when I have switched my active GPU to my nvidia 970m I get unable to find display adapter error.

if I query lspic I can see my Nvidia card:

Ragnarok:~$ lspci -v | grep VGA  
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])  
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

a quick nvidia-smi shows the below:

user@Ragnarok:~$ nvidia-smi  
Mon Nov 13 19:23:32 2017  
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+  
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.90 Driver Version: 384.90 |  
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+  
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |  
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |  
|===============================+======================+======================|  
| 0 GeForce GTX 970M Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |  
| N/A 42C P5 8W / N/A | 361MiB / 6078MiB | 3% Default |  
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+  
| Processes: GPU Memory |  
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |  
|=============================================================================|  
| 0 1025 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 25MiB |  
| 0 1308 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 48MiB |  
| 0 1621 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 100MiB |  
| 0 1809 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 144MiB |  
| 0 2080 G share/jetbrains-toolbox/jetbrains-toolbox 11MiB |  
| 0 2640 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 2MiB |  
| 0 2828 G /home/user/Games/evelauncher/./evelauncher 24MiB |  
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

As you can see Eve is getting loaded into the GPUs Vram.

This issue only seems to effect eve as I can run any other game from steam on the GPU. and I can run eve on the intel HD graphics ( albeit poorly)

Has anyone encountered this before?

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**Author:** ![Drunken\_Cloaky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/drunken_cloaky/32/37919_2.png) [@Drunken\_Cloaky](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Drunken_Cloaky)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ubuntu-17-10-eve-unable-to-find-valid-display-adapter/39099/2 "2017-11-13T22:09:26Z")

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Right Figured it our posting here in-case anyone anyone else runs into issues, for some reason it seems to work if you enable DX9 in the eve launcher settings. I have a feeling I am going to be royally screwed when this is is removed but for now it seems to work.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ubuntu-17-10-eve-unable-to-find-valid-display-adapter/39099/3 "2018-02-11T22:09:32Z")

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